Good Grammar [Grades 6-12]: Joyful and Affirming Language Lessons That Work for More Students

＂This book is about how to take grammar from being the boring, anxiety-producing, and off-putting ＂skunk of the garden party＂ to being an engaging, enjoyable, and essential guest of honor. It shows teachers how to take grammar from out-of-context worksheets and endless rule-memorization and put it into its proper context both in student writing and in the wider world. This book modernizes grammar instruction, infusing it with progressive ideals around equity and social justice, showing how to honor all forms of the English language instead of inflicting a standardized ＂correct＂ version. It is also about how to use our understanding of the brain and student motivation to make instruction stick, allowing transfer from an activity in class to the writing lives of the students themselves＂--

Matthew Johnson is an English teacher from Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is also a husband and father, and over the last decade he has read, thought, and written about how teachers can balance teaching with all of the other important roles they play in their lives. His work has been published by Principal Leadership, Edutopia, ASCD, The National Writing Project, and the National Council of Teachers of English, and his weekly thoughts on how to be a better teacher of writing in less time can be found on his website www.matthewmjohnson.com. When not teaching, reading, or writing, he can often be found in the kitchen, his garden, or out on a run through the gently rolling hills of Southeast Michigan.